Spaceflight Now | STS-106 | Docking Timeline

Docking Timeline
COMPILED BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
Posted: September 9, 2000

The following timeline covers the final stages of the shuttle Atlantis's rendezvous and docking with the international space station. Trailing the station by about eight nautical miles, commander Terrence Wilcutt will fire Atlantis's maneuvering rockets around 10:59 p.m. to begin the final approach. At 12:29 a.m. Sunday, the shuttle will reach a point 600 feet directly below the station (+R bar) and then loop up in front of the lab (+V bar) before moving on to a point directly above (-R bar). After station keeping at a range of 170 feet, Wilcutt will manually guide the shuttle to a point just 30 feet above the target. Once the two spacecraft are in range of Russian ground stations, the final approach to docking will commence. This timeline will be updated as warranted.

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Docking Timeline

At a glance
Vehicle: Atlantis (OV-104)
Payload: ISS 2A.2b
Launch date: Sept. 8, 2000
Launch time: 1245:47.066 GMT (8:45:47.066 a.m. EDT)
Launch site: LC-39B, Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
Landing date: Sept. 20, 2000
Landing time: 0756 GMT (3:56 a.m. EDT)
Landing site: SLF, KSC
Crew: Wilcutt, Altman, Lu, Malenchenko, Morukov, Mastracchio, Burbank

Flight Data File

Quick look data - Facts, figures and important information about the mission.

Flight plan - A detailed day-by-day timetable of the major mission events based on NASA's official flight plan.

Landing opportunities - The available deorbit and landing options to bring Atlantis home, plus entry timeline.

NASA TV - The schedule for NASA TV programming during the STS-106 mission.

Tracking spacecraft - Latest orbital data for tracking the shuttle, station and other satellites on your computer.

The crew - Meet the seven astronauts who will fly aboard shuttle Atlantis.

Space demographics before and after - How the space explorers numbers will stack up before and after STS-106.

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